lunes, 24 de octubre de 2011

The Pitchfork story began in 2006, when Ryan Shreiber, Young american from minneapolis, saw in internet an important potential to deliver his ideas about music, independent music.

«The reviews I was reading at the time lacked strong opinions. They were all pretty much reverent. And I thought: 'Where's the honesty?' I knew that if I listened to 100 records I was going to dislike at least 20 of them. Also, a lot of the music that was getting popular at that time was second-wave Nirvana, such as Filter and the Deftones. I didn't feel it was independent music. It didn't come from independent labels.»

Just graduate and very disappointed about what he could read about music on the web, he decided to found his own online fanzine : Pitchfork, where he could share his own musical reviews. He started to recrute some new writers, paid with CD promos, and the Pitchfork Machine started slowly to grow up. For giving you an idea, today, Pitchfork has around of 50 Freelance writer worldwide and 20 full-time staff, based in New York and Chicago.

The main idea of Pitchfork, was to talk about indie music, the music that you don’t listen in radio or TV. Critized so many time for their Frankness, The Pitchfork team didn’t give up and decided to go forward, creating an Independent musical event in Chicago.

In 2006, the first Pitchfork Music Festival took place in july in the union park in Chicago and bring not less than 35,000 visitors to listen 41 bands including the electronic Producers Diplo and Matthew Dear.

For the first time of Pitchfork History, the festival leave Chicago to come install itself in Paris, for the first foreign Pitchfork edition.

«Yes ! The Pitchfork Music Festival will embark on a journey across the atlantic, touching down for two autumn days in the City of Lights»

The idea seems succesfull, the tickets were already sold out two weeks ago.

Richard D. James' recordings as Aphex Twin have helped set the bar for exploration in electronic music. Garnering more praise than nearly any other electronic artist that came out of the 1990s, Aphex Twin's strong hardcore and acid roots are heavily embedded within his music, making for an entertaining and unique live show.

First spanish date since the We Love Space Closing on September 26, Aphex Twin Recently has spent time recording and playing with Battles and Steve Reich who he played with last september 17 at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow, Polonia on a very exclusive and unique light and sound performance together…

Germany's Hendrick Weber has been releasing tracks under the name Pantha du Prince since the early 2000s. After releasing two minimal-inspired house albums (Diamond Daze and This Bliss) Weber extended his craft while remaining true to his original vision with his 2010 release,Black Noise. With a sound as gritty as it is chaotic, Black Noise enlisted the help of Noah Lennox (Panda Bear of Animal Collective) for "Stick to My Side" and Tyler Pope of LCD Soundsystem and !!! for "The Splendour".

« Electronic Music creates its own history, which gives it a lot of freedom to tell stories that haven’t been told. As soon as you work with classical music you work with a certain history. When you hear the sound of a violin, immediately you’re remembering, 500-600 years of human kind. Electronic music has the ability to go into a field that is new, not connected to a deeper history. »

Hendrick Weber aka Pantha Du Prince asked about the beauty of electronic music by the WebZine 200 % on october 13.

Erol Alkan got his start in the London DJ scene in the early 2000s as the house DJ for Trash nightclub. With a sound that blurs together elements of electronic, dance, and industrial, Alkan soon found himself playing for some of world's top nightclubs. He has since spent time remixing tracks for Bloc Party, Hot Chip, and Daft Punk and made this tremendous remix of the Connan Mockasin song « Forever Doplhin Love ».

On Saturday, Sweden will be honoured in Paris with the beautiful and mystic Lykke Li. While her 2008 debut album, Youth Novels, made its retro-chic mark on the global blogosphere, her most recent release, Wounded Rhymes, proves to be a rich and complex album that still manages to be rough around the edges.

Swedish songwriter Jens Lekman creates witty pop songs that appeal him to a literate, clever indie audience. After releasing a number of EPs and a debut album in the early 2000s, Lekman's profile rose with his second, acclaimed full-length, Night Falls Over Kortedala in 2007. His most recent release, An Argument With Myself, continues to roll with the catchy one-liners as he uses the album to show off his diverse artistic capabilities...

jueves, 20 de octubre de 2011

After enjoying an musical and animated summer in the White island. It’s time for the electronic music addicts to move in Amsterdam where from yesterday, is currently hapenning the 16th edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event festival untill Sunday.

With over 700 artists from all over the globe performing in 52 clubs, ADE’s festival has grown into the worlds biggest club festival for electronic music. Amsterdam Dance Event, It’ offer at 3.000 business professionals and 130.000 music lovers a taste of the latest trends and developments in the electronic music scene.

Over its fifteen years of existence, ADE’s conference program has come to be recognised as the most important of its kind, making it the ultimate platform for critical dialogue and debate in the field of electronic music. The aim of ADE’s daytime activities is to provide the international electronic music industry with an extensive and all-embracing platform to do business, exchange knowledge and keep up to date on the latest developments and trends of the rapidly evolving global music industry.

“How the music creators and consumers adapt themself at the internet media evolution?”, “How distance oneself from all the web jungle to draw the people attention on your production ?” are some of the subjects with which started yesterday the ADE day conferences.

ADE it’s more than 40 conferences with regard to the electronic music world (artists, new technologies, communication and more…)

Today, is a conference about “THE NEW IBIZA” which was taking place. Moderated by the german Jonty Skruff and with guests like Samuel GUETTA, Judge Jules, Judgement Sunday in EDEN, Mark NETTO, Pacha Ibiza and Ben TURNER, the conference was abording a panel themed around all things Ibiza: how to run a club, how to break a track there. How to become the next ‘New Ibiza’: And just how influential is Ibiza? And why?

CIRCOLOCO, one of the DC10 residence this summer in Ibiza, will storm the Westerunie club with among other Ellen Allien, Seth Troxler and Jamie Jones,remixer of the Azari & III song, “Hungry for the power” one of the 2011 summer biggest tune…

We remember his impressive performance in Amnesia on August 5th and its very special last track. Not for everyone…

In Paradiso, Apparat and Modeselektor, will be performing together. Sharing the same desks, but not as Moderat, this artistic collaboration which had give birth to the beautiful eponymous album Moderat in 2009.

Big time for this three german dj and producers, who just released thier new respective albums in october. The new Modeselektor album “Monkey Town” and “The devil’s walk”, of Apparat were two of the very awaited 2011 releases.

John DIGWEED present BEDROCK. The British Dj and Producer, is the co foudner of the label BEDROCK. With the some of the cream of the progressive and breaks crop releases music on Bedrock the label constantly goes from strength to strength and provides the latest in quality beats. John DIGWEED will be sharing the desks with two BEDROCK artists Guy J and Stelios Vassiloudis this friday.

Every Saturday from 23H00 to 01H00 listen the exclusiveJohn DIGWEED session, Transitions on Ibiza Sonica.

Ibiza Sonica will be an extra FM/online platform for these radio stations. We will host some of our best shows in these stations and we will connect to them sharing the signal, all linked and in good music communion.

From 11am to 1pm Monday to Thursday enter in the universe of Seekoo Radio.

Seekoo is a design hotel in Bordeaux, France.

Seekoo Web Radio is the new sounding board for the free promotion of contemporary art on the internet. Music non stop 24/24, works selected by art experts in virtual exhibitions, and meeting with artists. A pleasant welcome into the 21st Century Art.

Based out of Santa Teresa on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, Pura Sonica is a radio dedicated to the music, the beach and mother nature. Specialised in downtempo beach sounds with roots in soul, funk and jazz, trip hop and cutting edge lounge, the very best chillout through to deep house and electronica.

From 11pm untill 1am connect to the best global club listenning Radio Amnesia.

Cocoon Heroes, La Troya, Cream, Matinée… Radio Amnesia is the 24/7 web radio for anyone who want to live the Amnesia xperience and listen the best Amnesia parties sessions wherever and whenever he wants… From 11pm to 1am on Ibiza Sonica.

viernes, 7 de octubre de 2011

One of the last Closing of this 2011 season full of sun, sea, music and good energy.

KUMHARAS, this little heaven, located in Cala De Bou in San Josep, with his beach bar, his restaurant designed by Ciro Intoccia and his little hippie market successed to create of this place a very peacefull haven preserved from all the Madness of the Island, and to become famous for his amazing and privileged Sunset.

During all the summer, many artists have succeeded at the desks, a lot of them,

participating at the Sonica Sunset Session, a broadcasted radio show hosted by KUMHARAS every wenesday from 19H00 to 21H00 and presented by Igor Marijuan and Karlos Sense…